U.S. At War: Angle of Attack

This week the question of confirming Henry Wallace as Secretary of
Commerce would be squarely before the Senate. But Ohio's Bob Taft,
generalissimo of the anti-Wallace forces, did not wait. Last week he
sent up a preliminary artillery barrage.

In the simplest and most direct way possible, Senator Taft told his
colleagues that he was against Henry Wallace on any count; the fact
that the George bill would take the vast federal lending agencies away,
did not make Wallace a better man than he was before.

Senator Taft is against Wallace because he regards Wallace as an enemy
of business and hence functionally...